Sarah Hyland Rushes To The ER After She Starts Feeling Like She’s Being ‘Choked’

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Sarah Hyland returned home from a recent stay in the ER without any clue as to why she’d been hospitalized.

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The Modern Family star was rushed to the ER in June. She said she was “feeling like I was being choked” and thought that maybe there was “something medically wrong with me.”

It wouldn’t have been out of the question. Sarah deals with multiple lifelong chronic illnesses; she was born with kidney dysplasia, and she has endometriosis. She has undergone surgery after surgery over the years.

She’s been very open with fans about all of it, and this recent hospitalization was no exception.

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But doctors never did figure out what, if anything, was wrong with her.

Sarah explained what happened on her Instagram story.

“I just got home from Friday night, they ran multiple tests multiple times, and there’s nothing physically wrong with me,” she said. “So wonder why I was there…”

Because of those two conditions, Sarah has been in and out of the hospital for extended periods of time. She has had 16 surgeries so far, including organ transplant surgeries, and she is only 28 years old. That’s more than one surgery every two years.

Her health journey is ever present and ongoing. She had her first kidney transplant in 2012 when she was just 21 years old. She underwent a second kidney transplant in 2017. She did not hesitate to display her scar from the second transplant on Instagram.

“Long story short, I went in because I was feeling like I was being choked from whatever’s in the house, and I was like, maybe it’s actually a coincidence, maybe there’s actually something medically wrong with me,” she explained.

Sarah shared with her Instagram followers during that incident, explaining that she was running a fever. She also was suffering from pink eye and a viral respiratory infection. The illness caused her endometriosis to flare up.

But luckily, Sarah isn’t in this fight all on her own. She says that she’s been coping much better with her various health challenges since she started dating her boyfriend, reality star Wells Adams of The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise fame.

They started dating right before her second kidney transplant, and he’s been by her side ever since.

“He was texting me in the morning before I went into surgery, and we were FaceTiming the entire time I was in the hospital,” she told People. “He’s seen me at my worst. He was there through all of that.”